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UPON THIS ROCK How much am I offered for this strong buck? He can pick cotton faster than any buck alive! Look at his muscles bulge! Show em your teeth boy! An auction of human chattle was part of the proper business of Caldwell plantation in those dark days of South- ern history. Another part of the busi- ness of the plantation was the mining of gold. Two shafts sunk on the 500 acres of Caldwell yielded the precious metal valued greater than the human souls auctioned from the giant mill stone. Following the Civil War the plantation was sold to the Reverend Jeremiah O ' Connell, a missionary priest. He pre- sented the land to the Benedictine monks of Saint Vincent ' s Archabbey, Latrobe, Pennsylvania. They agreed, according to the wishes of Father O ' Connell, to found a community and school on the land. April 21, 1876, the Reverend Herman Wolfe, O.S.B. arrived at the small train station in Garibaldi, North Carolina to take possession of the property. A com- pany of ten monks, many of them originally from Germany, soon joined Father Herman. These eleven men took rich red clay from the earth and molded and fired it into stout bricks. With these bricks they set about building the mon- astery and school. In October, 1876 the school opened with four students. In 1878 the school was enlarged under the name of St. Mary ' s college. November 9, 1884, the new monastery became Mary-Help-of- Christians Abbey. The new Abbot, the Right Reverend Leo Haid, O.S.B., later arranged for Garabaldi, the small town near the Abbey, to be renamed Belmont, after a New York State senator. In 1913, the college was renamed Bel- mont Abbey College. In 1952, it became a 4-year liberal arts senior college. Until that time the enrollment was never over 200. Under the leadership of Abbot Walter Coggin, O.S.B., the college undertook a large building program. The expansion program was initiated 1960, and since that time six major buildings have been completed. Today, in the foyer of the Abbey Cathedral rests the large mill stone which at one time served as the auction block for slaves sold on the plantation. It is now a baptismal font, an instrument of liberation. The years continue to grow into each other as the Benedictine monks continue their 1,400-year-old tradition in the roll- ing hills in the piedmont of Western North Carolina.
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